“He’s not concerned with whether you agree with him on the Constitution, the US Military, or Freedom. More important, Adam asks do you know what his views actually are? Adam says you should be the ‘alpha’ of your own life. You might call him a patriot, or maybe rabble-rouser, but regardless of where you stand, Adam hopes after the 2020 election cycle, you will call him ‘the last President you will never need.'”
Tag Archives: Economics
What Venezuelan savers can teach everyone else
“To Venezuelans such wisdom is essential, because when you are coping with hyperinflation, the long term is next week.”
Bill Bonner: The Fed Can’t Stop What’s Coming
“Donald Trump is the last person who wants to see interest rates go up. Not only does his personal business empire depend on low rates… so does his political empire.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/the-fed-cant-stop-whats-coming/
The Government’s War on Ladies Who Drive You Home from the Hospital
“The government does not fine or otherwise prosecute ‘free’ drivers because the purpose of the licensing bylaw is to restrict competition, not to protect the public.”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/governments-war-ladies-who-drive-you-home-hospital
EU Parliament Study Warns Politicians Not To Ban Bitcoin
“‘Unlike their 18th and 19th century paper [private money] predecessors, VCs are used globally, disregarding national borders,’ the report reads.”
Read more: https://bitcoinist.com/eu-parliament-study-not-ban-bitcoin/
Doug Noland: Intimidate Nobody
“Over time, attaining financial wealth became an absolute prerequisite for wielding geopolitical power and influence. The old military variety appears almost feeble standing next to the contemporary Financial Arms Race.”
Read more: http://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/2018/07/weekly-commentary-intimidate-nobody.html
Trump’s criticism of Fed rate hikes recalls Nixon
“Former President Richard Nixon arm-twisted Arthur Burns to maintain loose monetary policy as Nixon sought re-election in 1972. That didn’t work out particularly well: As the 1970s economy continued to grow, inflation took root thanks to low rates and remained stubbornly in place until the early 1980s.”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/trumps-fed-criticism-is-nearly-without-precedent-in-us-history.html
Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything
“At the intersection of programming, economics, cryptography, distributed systems, information theory, and math, you will find Vitalik Buterin, who has managed to synthesize insights across those fields into successful, real-world applications like Ethereum, which aims to decentralize the Internet.”
Former Fed officials lament taxpayers’ inability to see necessity of bank bailouts
“The three asserted that they had no choice but to use taxpayer money to stabilize the financial institutions. Paulson said, ‘I was totally ineffective at having the American people understand that what we were doing was for them and not for Wall Street.'”
Read more: https://apnews.com/f0c5c2a63f16473e999f64312039dbe2
Foreign investment in the U.S. plunged 32% in 2017 amid global decline
“Global foreign direct investment flows were down 18% in 2017 from the previous year and nearly 24% from its post-recession high in 2015, which the OECD attributed to a surge in financial and corporate restructuring.”
Read more: https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/11/news/economy/foreign-direct-investment-2017/index.html